Trisha Goddard
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| Trisha Goddard | |
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| Born | 23 December 1957 Hackney Central, London, England |
Trisha Goddard (born 23 December 1957) is an English television presenter well known for her morning talk show Trisha Goddard which currently airs on five. In Australia she is known as a long time presenter of Play School.
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[edit] Background
Goddard was born in London, England to a black mother from Dominica. Until recently, she wrongly believed that her mother's white English husband was her father. [1].
Brought up in Tanzania, East Africa and Surrey, her early career as an air stewardess led to travel writing for magazines and then, when she settled in Australia in the mid 1980's, a new career in television.
She then became a presenter and roving reporter for Australia's 7.30 Report which led to her establishing and presenting the prime-time show Everybody. Then she started her own production company, devising, producing and presenting more than 400 programmes before returning to England in 1998 to host her own talk show on ITV, Trisha.[citation needed]
Trisha Goddard launched her own independent television production company, Town House TV, with former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop.
In the epilogue to her autobiography, published in 2008, she reveals that as a result of a DNA test, and the fact she is considerably blacker than her mother's other children, she now knows that the white man married to her mother was not in fact her genetic father as she had previously believed. She was actually fathered by a black man; this fact was reported by the media in 2008, including by the Daily Mail.
[edit] Media career
After emigrating to Australia, she worked as a television presenter (most notably on the ABC's The 7.30 Report) and also as a host of the children's program Play School. She was later chairperson of the Australian Government's National Community Advisory Group on Mental Health.
In 1998 after returning to England she became the host of a ITV flagship daytime chat show, the BAFTA winning Trisha, produced by Anglia Television.
In September, 2004 Goddard left ITV to join Five in a new programme titled Trisha Goddard, which made its TV debut on 24 January 2005. Similar in style to her old show, focuses on relationships, families in crisis, and reunions. The show is produced by Town House Productions. In the early stages of the show, it was observed that repeats of her ITV show have continued to achieve higher ratings than her new programme on Five.
Goddard had always been willing to appear in comic satires of her television programmes. In 2003, a specially-shot clip of her show appeared in the ITV religious fantasy drama The Second Coming. In 2004, she filmed two short scenes for the romantic zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead. Both scenes were filmed on the set of Trisha.
Her show was also featured on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain where the character Vicky Pollard met up with her long-lost father. For a What Not to Wear Christmas special aired on December 22, 2004, Goddard was given a fashion makeover by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. [2] She appears very briefly in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "Army of Ghosts" in a parody episode of her own show entitled "I Married a Ghost".
She appeared as a guest on the BBC's The Kumars at No. 42 and was also the guest host for an episode of the second series of The Friday Night Project, for Channel 4. Goddard also has her own talk show on Liverpool's new radio station at (City Talk 105.9).
[edit] References
- ^ TV & showbiz: Friday, 28 March, 2008 — dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved March 30, 2008.
- ^ Television: Wednesday 22 December — timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved September 13, 2007.
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Goddard, Trisha |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | English television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23 December 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hackney Central, London, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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Trisha has a brilliant Producer, Mark Johnson and two very high profile researchers Noirin and Katherine. The team aim to raise the bar of Chat Shows with each show they make.
